Snowmen's hat wave texture problem

Iā€™m doing a CG Cookie snowmen course and Iā€™m stuck on this part https://cgcookie.com/lesson/materials-for-the-scarf-and-hat at 19:31 where he put a wave texture on top of the hat and Iā€™m having troubles. the wave texture is acting weird on top of my hat please help


Ā My hat wave texture

Hat wave texture from course


Ā Also here is my blend file https://pasteall.org/blend/8f88c59ef9314f1487a5ff53f46f2454


  • spikeyxxx replied

    Try changing the height of the grid filled area and the size (scale):

    It's easier if you temporarily disable the Subdivision Surface Modifier.

  • adrian replied

    The wave texture works using the local axis of the hat, so where this texture works on the side, if the top is not flat, which it looks like its not quite on your hat, then the texture will look odd on top. You probably rotated your hat then moved the top down in the global Z axis. Try deleting the grid fill and re-do it, then move the new faces down in theĀ local Z axis.

    Or select the hat in object mode and press ALT+R to reset the rotation and then in edit mode select all the verts that make up the top of the hat and while holding SHIFT , deselect then select again a vert on the outside edge, then change the transform pivot point to Active Element

    Ā and then press S , Z , then 0. This will scale the verts in the Z axis to the active vert (make the all horizontal) then you can move the inner section down before going to object mode and rotating the hat to fit the head of the snowman.Ā 

    Either way should fix it if it bothers you.